FOLLOWING a pleasant weekend in Cornwall I returned and was appalled at the state of the A38 between Wychbold and Bromsgrove.

It was like travelling on a road to a household refuse dump. Over those three to four miles, the pavements were littered with paper and plastic bags. There were plastic bottles, cans and weeds evident in the kerbs. The verges were so overgrown the pavements were reduced to a foot wide in places and the hedgerows were in a similar state with the added bonus of having plastic bags hanging from them.

I have since travelled around the district, and it is the same nearly everywhere and I have been trying to find a reason why the Bromsgrove district has been allowed to decline to such a disgusting condition

Bromsgrove District Council is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of our environment, but the council is obviously not doing it. The council does not want to do it, or is incapable of managing the operation to do it. It has got to be done but who is going to do it? It can't be lack of money.

We now have many more new houses, all paying their Council Tax, with no increase in the facilities that these people will need. So what is happening to this money? Has it gone on the time spent haggling over the Bromsgrove Rovers ground development or for planning of the old Market Hall - I really don't know?

Please councillors - can we have our old town back again? We are a market town so let us not change it. We have a football team and a ground - let us keep that as well.

We do not want to become a metropolis, just a pleasant, clean town that we can start having a pride in again - as we did years ago.

Saddened

Bromsgrove